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Its legislation is simply Slavery in statutes, Slavery in chapters, Slavery in sections, with an enacting clause.
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Sumner critiques the legal framework as being entirely composed of pro-slavery statutes.
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Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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